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GIS Staff In The Field Updating E911
Address Across the County The Butler County GIS Department has been working in the field the last three weeks updating and verifying addresses as part of the LBRS Project. Crews have been field researching missing and problem address in an effort to provide the most accurate data to the County’s various E911 dispatching centers. Staff members have been knocking on doors and talking with citizens to verify addresses. Door hangers have been left at those locations where an accurate address could not be verified. Anyone receiving one of these door hangers can either call the GIS department directly or email their address to update the data. |
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LBRS (Location Based
Response System) Data delivered to Digital Data Technologies, Inc.
(DDTI) of County's
participation in the Location Based Response System (LBRS)
Program. The initiative is sponsored by the Geographically
Referenced Information Program (OGRIP) on behalf of the State of between State and County government for the creation of spatially accurate street and centerlines with address ranges and field verified addresses. DDTI used special vans equipped with GPS (Global Positioning Systems) to drive every road in the county, accurately mapping centerlines and field verifying addresses. This data will be maintained and updated as a
joint effort by Responders along with a variety of departments and agencies from the Federal to Local level. |
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Two members of GIS staff receive GISP Certification Cathy Greulich and Doug Kotnik of the Butler County GIS Department each received their GISP Certification in April. This certification recognizes expert level standards of education, experience and achievement in the field of Geographical Information Systems. Cathy Greulich is a Project Coordinator who has been with been working in GIS since 1999. Doug Kotnik has a BA in Geography and has been working in GIS
for the last 20 years. He has been with five years, the last three as director. |
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The Butler County GIS Department was presented with
OGRIPS "Best Practice" Award at the Ohio GIS Convention in |
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Auditor's Office GIS Department Gets New Pictometry Imagery Pictometry International of oblique aerial imagery is a revolutionary new technology in the field of aerial photography. While traditional aerial photography is taken from an airplane from a straight down view, Pictometry also takes images from a 45 degree angle. Oblique images are taken from the North, South, East and West. This gives the viewer an almost 360 degree view of any structure in location measurements directly from the images. This technology will prove to be incredibly valuable to Police, Fire and First Responders, among others across and training to departments and agencies throughout the County free of charge. |
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GIS Department assists with EMA HazSwat Exercise Members
of the GIS staff participated in a HazSwat exercise
coordinated by the Butler County Emergency Management Department. A HazSwat
exercise combines standard police SWAT tactics with hazardous material
handling. Staged at the abandoned
gas. Police,
Fire and Emergency Medical personnel from multiple jurisdictions coordinated
the simulated extraction of hostages and containment of hazardous materials. Members of the GIS staff assisted new EMA
Director Jeff Galloway with the testing of new GeoCast
Web software. This software enables
EMA to notify residents of message in the event of certain emergencies. Using a map displayed on a laptop computer
in their command vehicle, EMA staff were able to notify residents within a two block
radius of the school, that the exercise was only a drill. Later, the staff simulated a call out of residents in the area
warning them of the simulated chlorine release. The maps and data being
used in the software are provided by and maintained by the GIS Department and
are also being used by The |
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